hey! it could be 83 degrees in February ..... never mind me.
sorry guys, low 80's next three days here too
Rain with highs in the 40s and 50s through the weekend here.
Right now it's not doing much of anything, but there's a blizzard warning that starts at noon.
This is the one day all week the boys are in school. (They were off for Presidents Day on Mon. and Losar on Tues.) They will probably be released early, and the district says it's likely there will be snow days on Thursday and Friday. Our community is actually pretty small and has our own plows, so our streets tend to be cleared pretty quickly, but the school bus routes go through several other places that may not be plowed so promptly (*cough Minneapolis*).
Honest Abe didn't get a single in-person day this week...
Our place in Southern California is predicted to get snow tomorrow, too.
The date of this cup of coffee post jacked up my anxiety about 200% for about 30 seconds.
Whoops. Fixed. Sorry, I set it up this morning and by default I'm usually doing it for the next day.
Huh. I definitely thought that Thomas costume on the mug was anachronistic, but Shining Time Station apparently came to the U.S. in 1989. I was thinking it had to have been later than 1991, but I guess I was just too caught up in my TMNT and Rescue Rangers to notice.
OK, so this is the definition of personal and petty, but why does the Halloween blizzard get a 4 day sum, while my birthday blizzard gets split into 2 separate totals?
On the other hand, the 1982 storm is very close to the date of my birth, so it would be cool if it were on the top of the list.
I had to take a shot at which two you were thinking about and they seemed like a good candidate.
Goodness, that climate journal DNR feature is amazing! How'd you even find these two links, which aren't even on the legacy journal?
Second result, for me, when searching Google for "minnesota halloween blizzard". The 1982 blizzard was the first result for "minnesota january 1982 blizzard". After finding the journal entry for the 1991 blizzard, I tried to find the 1982 blizzard but didn't see it (I also missed checking the legacy archive). Another search found it however.
That's good! Impressed they're so high in the search.
During the 1991 Blizzard a bunch of fraternity brothers descended upon Minneapolis to hit the town with a couple alumni who had an apartment in Uptown. I remember waking up with a pounding headache and shoveling waaaay more snow than my body and head were ready for. I remember the heavy snows in 1982 and 1985 as I was the primary snow removal child in the family. Our driveway was about 1000 feet long and we had to shovel by hand several times in which the snow was nearly to my waist.
The worst blizzard I ever had to deal with personally was a blizzard in 2001 on the Monday after Thanksgiving. We were living in Sioux Falls and had to drive to Paynesville that day, as my daughter was scheduled for surgery on Tuesday in St. Cloud. I remember we expected snow, but not anything too crazy. By noon, the forecast changed and we quickly packed up the family and began the trip in my Jeep Cherokee at 2pm. It turned into a full blown blizzard soon after. I white knuckled it for 9 hours (typically a 3.5 hour drive). We drove through Willmar which received 21 inches that day. I remember barely being able to see the road 3ft in front of the headlights for the last 4 hours and we had to get to Paynesville. The next day we had an 8am surgery for my daughter. It was a surgery to remove portions of her skull as her brain was under pressure from her skull fusing together too soon. I honestly think divine intervention was in play as I have no other explanation on how we made it. The next morning my father in law hooked up the snow blower to his big farm tractor and carved a 3 mile path from the farm to the main road.
IIRC, that 1982 storm came on a scheduled football prospective weekend at The Alma Mater. The prospectives cancelled, so we were forced to drink the beer ourselves.
Another reminder that we'll close all the schools to protect the children but we won't close all non-essential business to protect the adults.
That should be up to the businesses to decide. Today isn't even bad (so far).
Risking a person’s life for a day’s worth of labor lost should be up to their employer?
Risking their life? Seems a little extreme.
Technically, I guess we risk our lives every day.
And I am saying plenty of businesses force their employees to risk their lives to drive to a place for work that is just about profit. We value children more than we value adults.
At a previous job I nearly died once going to work when I absolutely was not necessary. But I was told I would be fired if I didn't show. Same boss also screamed at me when I took a day off when I broke my foot.
As I write this I get a call from my garbage hauler saying they're suspending services tomorrow for their driver's safety. Woo!
We value children shareholder stock more than we value adults the working class.
Does Zooomx not care about his employees if he's open during winter snow storms? I'm guessing Alexandria gets a little snow in the winter.
I know it is popular to play the victim card, but there are plenty of thoughtful people that are in management. I'm sorry that's never been your experience.
During an active blizzard warning, I would say its a very callous disregard for one's employees to not close, yeah. I'm not saying in all winter storm situations, but this one seems much worse than your typical snow event.
I mean, the vast majority of this countries population are victims, especially as we transition more and more to a service economy.
I will say this. I agree that anyone who makes their employees drive in when they are uncomfortable doing so, is on shaky ground in my book. Right before reading this thread, I made the decision to close at 4pm tonight, which is about an hour or two before we will see the weather turn bad. However, even during weather that is not nearly as bad, I will never make an employee come in if they are not comfortable making the drive. As a result, my decision to open or close during questionable weather (or road conditions), is typically made by assessing how many staff members (who live close by) are able to make it into work and still navigate safely home. I have worked for companies that have forced me to stay open and risk the lives of my employees, and that is one reason I went into business for myself.
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And this is what I was trying to get at. There is a lot that goes into these decisions. To just dismissively say that no one cares is too easy. Everyone has difficult choices that they must make.
I did not mean to imply that nobody cares. Many do, including my employer now. Closing a school also creates complications and careful considerations go there, too. I just meant that in general, our society pushes harder for children's safety than adult safety. There will be many more shitty bosses tomorrow than shitty school superintendents.
I just meant that in general, our society pushes harder for children's safety than adult safety
Some folks agree with your premise and want to do something about it!
I'm just pleased that, with a new superintendent, our local school has finally gotten over the idea that it has to be the last one to close.
Hey I was on Mackey and Judd's Write that Down segment as a guest predictor. I will post the podcast link when it's up. It's about 40 minutes. You can also hear it at about 5:00p on 1500am.
I won't spoiler the three predictions just yet but will do so later after the podcast posts.
hey! it could be 83 degrees in February ..... never mind me.
sorry guys, low 80's next three days here too
Rain with highs in the 40s and 50s through the weekend here.
Right now it's not doing much of anything, but there's a blizzard warning that starts at noon.
This is the one day all week the boys are in school. (They were off for Presidents Day on Mon. and Losar on Tues.) They will probably be released early, and the district says it's likely there will be snow days on Thursday and Friday. Our community is actually pretty small and has our own plows, so our streets tend to be cleared pretty quickly, but the school bus routes go through several other places that may not be plowed so promptly (*cough Minneapolis*).
Honest Abe didn't get a single in-person day this week...
Our place in Southern California is predicted to get snow tomorrow, too.
The date of this cup of coffee post jacked up my anxiety about 200% for about 30 seconds.
Whoops. Fixed. Sorry, I set it up this morning and by default I'm usually doing it for the next day.
Huh. I definitely thought that Thomas costume on the mug was anachronistic, but Shining Time Station apparently came to the U.S. in 1989. I was thinking it had to have been later than 1991, but I guess I was just too caught up in my TMNT and Rescue Rangers to notice.
OK, so this is the definition of personal and petty, but why does the Halloween blizzard get a 4 day sum, while my birthday blizzard gets split into 2 separate totals?
The 1991 blizzard was a single storm that lasted four days while in 1982 it was two separate storms.
On the other hand, the 1982 storm is very close to the date of my birth, so it would be cool if it were on the top of the list.
I had to take a shot at which two you were thinking about and they seemed like a good candidate.
Goodness, that climate journal DNR feature is amazing! How'd you even find these two links, which aren't even on the legacy journal?
Second result, for me, when searching Google for "minnesota halloween blizzard". The 1982 blizzard was the first result for "minnesota january 1982 blizzard". After finding the journal entry for the 1991 blizzard, I tried to find the 1982 blizzard but didn't see it (I also missed checking the legacy archive). Another search found it however.
That's good! Impressed they're so high in the search.
During the 1991 Blizzard a bunch of fraternity brothers descended upon Minneapolis to hit the town with a couple alumni who had an apartment in Uptown. I remember waking up with a pounding headache and shoveling waaaay more snow than my body and head were ready for. I remember the heavy snows in 1982 and 1985 as I was the primary snow removal child in the family. Our driveway was about 1000 feet long and we had to shovel by hand several times in which the snow was nearly to my waist.
The worst blizzard I ever had to deal with personally was a blizzard in 2001 on the Monday after Thanksgiving. We were living in Sioux Falls and had to drive to Paynesville that day, as my daughter was scheduled for surgery on Tuesday in St. Cloud. I remember we expected snow, but not anything too crazy. By noon, the forecast changed and we quickly packed up the family and began the trip in my Jeep Cherokee at 2pm. It turned into a full blown blizzard soon after. I white knuckled it for 9 hours (typically a 3.5 hour drive). We drove through Willmar which received 21 inches that day. I remember barely being able to see the road 3ft in front of the headlights for the last 4 hours and we had to get to Paynesville. The next day we had an 8am surgery for my daughter. It was a surgery to remove portions of her skull as her brain was under pressure from her skull fusing together too soon. I honestly think divine intervention was in play as I have no other explanation on how we made it. The next morning my father in law hooked up the snow blower to his big farm tractor and carved a 3 mile path from the farm to the main road.
IIRC, that 1982 storm came on a scheduled football prospective weekend at The Alma Mater. The prospectives cancelled, so we were forced to drink the beer ourselves.
Another reminder that we'll close all the schools to protect the children but we won't close all non-essential business to protect the adults.
That should be up to the businesses to decide. Today isn't even bad (so far).
Risking a person’s life for a day’s worth of labor lost should be up to their employer?
Risking their life? Seems a little extreme.
Technically, I guess we risk our lives every day.
And I am saying plenty of businesses force their employees to risk their lives to drive to a place for work that is just about profit. We value children more than we value adults.
At a previous job I nearly died once going to work when I absolutely was not necessary. But I was told I would be fired if I didn't show. Same boss also screamed at me when I took a day off when I broke my foot.
As I write this I get a call from my garbage hauler saying they're suspending services tomorrow for their driver's safety. Woo!
We value
childrenshareholder stock more than we valueadultsthe working class.Does Zooomx not care about his employees if he's open during winter snow storms? I'm guessing Alexandria gets a little snow in the winter.
I know it is popular to play the victim card, but there are plenty of thoughtful people that are in management. I'm sorry that's never been your experience.
During an active blizzard warning, I would say its a very callous disregard for one's employees to not close, yeah. I'm not saying in all winter storm situations, but this one seems much worse than your typical snow event.
I mean, the vast majority of this countries population are victims, especially as we transition more and more to a service economy.
I will say this. I agree that anyone who makes their employees drive in when they are uncomfortable doing so, is on shaky ground in my book. Right before reading this thread, I made the decision to close at 4pm tonight, which is about an hour or two before we will see the weather turn bad. However, even during weather that is not nearly as bad, I will never make an employee come in if they are not comfortable making the drive. As a result, my decision to open or close during questionable weather (or road conditions), is typically made by assessing how many staff members (who live close by) are able to make it into work and still navigate safely home. I have worked for companies that have forced me to stay open and risk the lives of my employees, and that is one reason I went into business for myself.
Awesome
And this is what I was trying to get at. There is a lot that goes into these decisions. To just dismissively say that no one cares is too easy. Everyone has difficult choices that they must make.
I did not mean to imply that nobody cares. Many do, including my employer now. Closing a school also creates complications and careful considerations go there, too. I just meant that in general, our society pushes harder for children's safety than adult safety. There will be many more shitty bosses tomorrow than shitty school superintendents.
Some folks agree with your premise and want to do something about it!
I'm just pleased that, with a new superintendent, our local school has finally gotten over the idea that it has to be the last one to close.
Hey I was on Mackey and Judd's Write that Down segment as a guest predictor. I will post the podcast link when it's up. It's about 40 minutes. You can also hear it at about 5:00p on 1500am.
I won't spoiler the three predictions just yet but will do so later after the podcast posts.
Here’s a link to the podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mackey-judd-a-minnesota-sports-podcast-on-skor-north/id583938622?i=1000601164856